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PK DA M 507.6

Known as:PK DA M 507.6; PK Cp 6
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "PK DA M 507.6". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?m-pkdam507_6 (accessed 17 May 2026).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz

Provenience

Collection:Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)

Language and Script

Language:TB

Text contents

Text genre:Non-literary
Text subgenre:Account

Object

Material: on paper
Form:Scroll
Number of lines:8

Transliteration

a1/// – ci na se ne¯ ¯ś pā ke ste ṣṣe 5
a2/// [wa] nti śke¯ ¯ś pā ke ṣṣe «5» śai la¯ ¯ś pā ke
a3/// ṇa so me¯ ¯ś pa ke ntā ṣi cā ñi
a4/// ·ra rta te we¯ ¯ś ṣe «5» ya re kke jñā na
a5/// cā ñi sta re trai¯ ¯yä o lī śka ntsa
a6/// ·[u] tte yā ne¯ ¯ś pa ke nta sta re wi ṣu kttsa
a7/// ñi¯ ¯ś pā ke ṣe 4 sa ṅki ka ṣai ca
a8/// 4 ya re kke śa ma śkeṃ¯ ¯ś pā ke

Transcription

a1/// – cinaseneś pāke ste ṣṣe 5
a2/// wantiśkeś pāke ṣṣe 5 śailaś pāke
a3/// (jñā)ṇasomeś pakentāṣi cāñi
a4/// (amp)rärtateweś ṣe 5 yarekke jñāna-
a5/// cāñi stare traiy olīśkantsa
a6/// (p)utteyāneś pakenta stare wi ṣukttsa
a7/// ñiś pāke ṣe 4 saṅkikaṣai ca
a8/// 4 yarekke śamaśkeṃś pāke

Translation

a2/// ... the portion (assigned) to Cinasene is: one (for) 5 (coins).
a3/// ... the portion (assigned) to Wantiśke: one (for) 5 (coins). THe portion (assigned) to *Śaila ...
a4/// ... the coins apportioned to Jñānasome: ...
a5/// ... (the portion assigned) to Amprärtatewe: one (for) 5 (coins).
a6/// ... The coins are three, for Olīśka*n1
a7/// ... the portions (assigned) to Putteyāne: two (for) seven (coins each).
a8/// ... 4. The portion assigned to Yarekke, the boy ...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1Olīśkantsa is a perlative plural. Place names that are pluralia tantum are also found in other Indo-European languages, like Greek Ἀθῆναι or Latin Cannae. olīśkantsa needs to be a plural (for the inflection of forms in -śke/-ṣke, see Huard 2019). The function of the perlative is the denotation of the purpose of the coins, i.e. 'for Olīśka', cf. THT 2842 (pu)tatāsentse warwantsaisa cokiś ṣalywe ṣaṅk.

References

Edition

Ching 2010: 189-190; Pinault 0000: 6-7; Huard 2019